Unveiling Stories

Writers in the General Archive of the Indies

Erna von der Walde editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Charco Press

Published:15th Sep '26

Should be back in stock very soon

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In Sevilla, Spain, the General Archive of the Indies has, for 240 years, been a repository for centuries of materials and documents gathering a record of the daily life of empire. Now ten writers from Spain and Latin America have a chance to respond to this 80-million-page trove.

With contributions from:

  • Carlos Fonseca (Costa Rica)
  • Carlos Granés (Colombia)
  • Cristina Bendek (Colombia)
  • Juan Bonilla (Spain)
  • Karina Pacheco (Peru)
  • Liliana Colanzi (Bolivia)
  • Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia)
  • Martín Caparrós (Argentina)
  • Mayra Santos-Febres (Puerto Rico)
  • Yásnaya Elena A. Gil (Mexico)
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"What makes this collection so compelling is its determination to recover lives obscured by imperial bureaucracy. These essays expose colonial violence while celebrating the extraordinary cultural diversity and resilience of the Americas. The archive, once an instrument of domination, becomes a place of imaginative resistance." —Morning Star

ISBN: 9781917260466

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160 pages